Dr. R. Michael Tuttle has developed, for more than 3 decades, a successful career in the medical field of Endocrinology. Thanks to his exceptional skills, this expert has received numerous international awards. He has received the Lewis Braverman Lectureship Award from the American Thyroid Association and the Knoll Pharmaceutical Mentor Award from the Endocrine Society.  

He has also recently served as Clinical Director of the Endocrine Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital. He is also a permanent academic collaborator at Cornell University Medical School in New York.  

In addition, Dr. Tuttle has distinguished himself on the clinical-research level. Specifically, he has delved deeply into the study of Thyroid Cancer and his work in this field has changed the paradigm regarding differentiated treatments (DTC) for this disease. Prior to his therapeutic innovations, all patients were treated with Total Thyroidectomy and Radioactive Iodine (RAI). However, this expert was one of the pioneers in using serum Thyroglobulin (Tg) as an indicator of residual DTC.

As such, he has led international studies that demonstrated the efficacy of recombinant thyrotropin (rhTSH) in determining TSH-stimulated Tg. This also led to the stratification of patients into risk categories and reduced the number of ionizing radiations. Together with his molecular analyses, his clinical work has opened a new scenario for multikinase inhibitor (TKI) therapies for radioiodine therapy-resistant DTC. 

On the other hand, he has been a consultant to the Center for Disease Control for Radiation Exposure of Peoples in the Marshall Islands, the Hanford Downwinder Project, and a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences for Radiation Exposed Populations.

• Clinical Director of the Endocrinology Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Specialist in Thyroid Cancer and Radioiodine Therapy. 
• Academic Advisor, Cornell University Medical School, New York 
• Fellowship at the Madigan Army Medical Center 
• Residency in Medical Endocrinology at Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center 
• M.D. from the University of Louisville 
• B.S. in Biology, Northern Kentucky University 
• Member of: 
  
  • Endocrine Society 
  • American Thyroid Association 
  • American Association of Endocrine Surgeons 
  • American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists